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Sharif Khan Profile and Articles
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1). 10 Marketing Tips For Entrepreneurs
Nothing happens in business until a sale is made. Marketing is simply about getting new customers and keeping them. If you’re not doing something everyday to market and promote your business, your competitors are. Here are ten easy-to-implement tips to effectively market and grow your business:
1. Partner with large email database list owners and offer to cross promote each oher.
2). Awaken The Leader In You: 10 Easy Steps To Developing Your Leadership Skills
"The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit." - Mark Twain
Many motivational experts like to say that leaders are made, not born. I would argue the exact opposite. I believe we are all natural born leaders, but have been deprogrammed along the way.
3). Breakfast Of Failures
“If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.” --Thomas Watson, Sr. Founder of IBM
Before the Breakfast of Champions – there was the Breakfast of Failures:
• C.S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia) had over 800 rejections before he sold even one piece of writing.
• Oprah Winfrey was not deterred when she got fired from her television reporter’s job being told, “You’re not fit for TV.
4). Key To Success: 10 Success Tips For Maximum Achievement
First off, I would echo the voice of 18th century French philosopher Voltaire, made popular and relevant in today’s leadership lexicon by "Good to Great" author Jim Collins, who said, "Good is the Enemy of Great."
1. "Good is the Enemy of Great." Get rid of the good to make room for the great in your life. Instead of keeping the main thing the main thing, we major in too many minor things.
5). Leadership Development Interview With Stephen Covey
“The call and need of a new era is for greatness. It’s for fulfillment, passionate execution and significant contribution.” - Stephen R. Covey, from The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness
Making a rare public appearance in Toronto at the Mississauga Living Arts Centre, world-respected leadership authority and author of the international bestseller, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, named the #1 Most Influential Business Book of the Twentieth Century, Dr.
6). Leadership Lessons From Pope John Paul II
"Heroes are rebels with a cause. Rebels because they challenge the traditional ways of thinking and refuse to follow the herd. They have a cause, a vision, that's larger than life." - Sharif Khan, author of Psychology of the Hero Soul
From a small-town Polish boy born to a retired army officer to become Pope; from a hard life in Nazi occupied Poland, his mother dead of kidney and heart failure, an older brother dead from scarlet fever, to become quite possibly “man of the century.
7). Penguin Publisher Reveals What It Really Takes To Get Published.
Mr. David Davidar began his career in journalism and is founder of Penguin Books India. Currently, he is Publisher of Penguin Canada and also is author of the novel, The House of Blue Mangoes.
How did you first get started in the publishing business?
Twenty years ago I was working in Bombay and there was a colleague I knew who had done a publishing course at Harvard.
8). The Chief Cause Of Business Failure And Success
Business rises and falls on leadership. According to business guru, Brian Tracy, “Leadership is the most important single factor in determining business success or failure in our competitive, turbulent, fast-moving economy.” Still not convinced? Based on a study by Jessie Hagen of the US Bank, here are the main reasons why businesses fail:
• Poor Business Planning
• Poor Financial Planning
• Poor Marketing
• Poor Management
Proper application of these key factors is a function of good leadership.
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